Today, developers, planners, and policy makers alike share a relatively clear vision of what Transit Oriented Development means. The vision is one of a walkable area of mixed residential and commercial uses surrounding a public transit station, typically a rail station. But a recent article from The Atlantic’s CityLab urges us to move past this already […]
Recently Walk Score released their 2014 City and Neighborhood Report. The report ranks cities and their neighborhoods by their walk score, transit score, and bike score. Accordingly, Downtown LA was ranked the most walkable and transit accessible neighborhood in Los Angeles. One might ask, if Downtown is so walkable and transit accessible, why do we […]
Randyl Drummer from CoStar recently posted a story on their website of the need and recent trend for repositioning distressed assets such as malls and other under-performing retail centers in order to transform them into income-producing properties through alternative uses. This story really hit home with Urban One as we have been consulting in the retail sector for […]